Army National Guard guardsman Kailey Carlson, a diminutive PhD candidate in psychology who plans to specialize in treating female vets affected by rape and post-traumatic stress syndrome, is being ...

JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq - Many 3d Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) Soldiers are learning modern Army combatives and other combative techniques as part of their training in Iraq today. Modern Army ...

Martial artists from the Army’s Camp Humphreys, Osan Air Base and surrounding communities in South Korea went head-to-head recently at the 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade Invitational Combatives ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. -- Specialist Sean Shanahan looks at combatives, the Army's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu-based style of hand-to-hand fighting, much like he does life: You get knocked down, you ...

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There’s an assumption, fed by movies and a romanticized view of war, that every American military member is an e-lite hand-to-hand ninja, martial artist, and/or dynamo in the Octagon. While there are ...

At the combatives pit, eight companies from the Class of 2014 received a four-hour block of instruction from a team of West Point cadets on a series of passes, sweeps and submissions. The training ...

The Army says proficiency in hand-to-hand combat is a solid part of the modern soldier's foundation. In a world full of high-tech weapons and remote-controlled hardware, still knowing how to kick ass ...

I am not in the military. The last time a member of my family had any military service was back in World War II when my Grampa was a Major in the US Army Air Corps which would become known as the Air ...